(898 quotes found)
“All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution”
Thomas Jefferson
“What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense”
Mark Twain
“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.”
“He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.”
Thomas Paine
“The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice”
John Adams
“God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country."”
Benjamin Franklin
“Where liberty is, there is my country”
“All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.”
John Locke
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.”
Patrick Henry
